‘Anin, Reihan, Shaked, Mon 14.9.09, Morning
Translation: Bracha B.A.06:10 A’anin
There are a few people. The soldiers who noticed us moved the hummer in order to hide something…However, there is a grove nearby filled with junk and from there we can observe the checkpoint. An old man with his donkey is checked for five minutes. A soldier checks another person’s permit. He turns it in every direction for three minutes, and it is acceptable. A woman arrives with a 12-year-old boy. The woman gets through and the boy is sent back. A man on a tractor passes through in five minutes. Another youth is sent back. 06:35 – The soldiers lock the gates. Several people who are between the two fences within the checkpoint are sent back in the direction of the village of A’anin. The soldiers say that they came late and claim that they are not going to farm their land but going to Um El Fahem. We are unable to do anything.There is a happy ending to the episode: One of the people sent back shouts his telephone number to us. We gave the number to Lieutenant-Colonel Aadel, the head of the Liaison and Coordination Administration at Salem, who saw to it that the returnees were let through. 07:20 – Reihan Barta’a
4 tenders loaded with vegetables are waiting to be checked. People who are coming pass through immediately.We met a group of nine youths who appear to be confused and tired. They were caught in Israel at night in Kfar Manda. They are from a village near Hebron. One tells us that his telephone, which cost NIS 1,000, together with a phone card that cost NIS 60 and NIS 100 in cash that were in his wallet have disappeared. They told us that another five youths were being detained in the Misgav police station and one was released on bail. The nine youths are waiting for their friends. We later clarified by phone that the five were released at 12:00 noon. Another phone call later revealed that the money was returned, but we did not succeed in verifying what happened to the telephone. We met a young man who works in the seamline zone. In order to visit his family who lives on the other side of the fence, he has to travel across half of Israel. The trip costs him NIS 300 and takes an entire day.We also met two children at the checkpoint who are apparently beggars. One, about 10 years old, takes out a cigarette despite the fact that it is Ramadan. They look to us to be children without a future and without the opportunity of choice.08:30 Shaked-TuraThe students have already gone through. We saw one of the teachers. We are told that this morning about 150 people passed through.08:45 – Sadly, we left the checkpoint.
'Anin checkpoint (214)
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'Anin checkpoint (214)
'Anin checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence east of the Israeli community Mei Ami and close to the village of Anin in the West Bank. It is opened twice a week, morning and afternoon, on days with shorter light time, for Anin farmers whose olive groves have been separated from the village by the fence it became difficult to cultivate their land. Transit permits are only issued to those who can produce ownership documents for their caged-in land, and sometimes only to the head of the family or his widow, eldest son, and children. Sometimes the inheritors lose their right to tend to the family’s land. The permits are eked out and are re-issued only with difficulty. 55-year-old persons may cross the checkpoint (into Israel) without special permits. During the olive harvest season (about one month around October) the checkpoint is open daily and more transit permits are issued. Names of persons eligible to cross are held in the soldiers’ computers. In July 2007, a sweeping instruction was issued, stating that whoever does not return to the village through this checkpoint in the afternoon will be stripped of his transit permit when he shows up there next time. Since 2019, the checkpoint has not been allways locked with the seam-line zone gate (1 of 3 gates), and the fence around it has been broken in several sites.
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Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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Tura-Shaked
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Tura-Shaked
This is a fabric of life* checkpoint through which pedestrians, cabs and private cars (since 2008) pass to and from the West Bank and the Seam-line Zone to and from the industrical zone near the settler-colony Shaked, schools and kindergartens, and Jenin university campuses. The checkpoint is located between Tura village inside the West Bank and the village of Dahar Al Malah inside the enclave of the Seam-line Zone. It is opened twice a day, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and from 12 noon to 7 p.m. People crossing it (at times even kindergarten children) are inspected in a bungalow with a magnometer. Names of those allowed to cross it appear in a list held by the soldiers. Usually traffic here is scant.
- fabric of life roads and checkpoints, as defined by the Terminals Authority in the Ministry of Defense (fabric of life is a laundered name that does not actually describe any kind of humanitarian purpose) are intended for Palestinians only. These roads and checkpoints have been built on lands appropriated from their Palestinian owners, including tunnels, bypass roads, and tracks passing under bridges. Thus traffic can flow between the West Bank and its separated parts that are not in any kind of territorial contiguity with it. Mostly there are no permanent checkpoint on these roads but rather ‘flying’ checkpoints, check-posts or surprise barriers. At Toura, a small (less than one dunam) and sleepy checkpoint has been established, which has filled up with the years with nearly .every means of supervision and surveillance that the Israeli military occupation has produced. (February 2020)
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